Porter Goss: “I am a member of the ethics committee and I am very proud of the work we have done so far. I believe that the ethics…”

“I am a member of the ethics committee and I am very proud of the work we have done so far. I believe that the ethics committee can function well on behalf of the House, the whole House, every Member. I think it can make sure that there is no special privilege for certain more senior people. I think every person is guaranteed equal treatment under our rules, so we can take our job and we can do our job, as we have proven when we can operate in a nonpartisan way, without any partisan pressures on either side, and when we can operate unilaterally from the leadership, either minority or majority leadership, when we operate for the whole body. I think we all know that we have a problem with the institution itself, with our credibility rating. An awful lot of Americans do not have a high opinion of the way we go about our business. Certainly when we get a bad headline, as we are having in this case, it causes us a problem.”